VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN TWO-HANDLED VASES, 'FIRE AND WATER'

GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND RETAILER'S MARKS FOR T.(HOMAS) GOODE & CO., LONDON, ONE WITH A RETAILER'S PAPER LABEL FOR THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1878, SHAPE NO. 1653, SIGNED L(OUIS) SOLON '81

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A PAIR OF MINTONS PATE-SUR-PATE CHOCOLATE-BROWN TWO-HANDLED VASES, 'FIRE AND WATER'
GILT CROWNED GLOBE AND RETAILER'S MARKS FOR T.(HOMAS) GOODE & CO., LONDON, ONE WITH A RETAILER'S PAPER LABEL FOR THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1878, SHAPE NO. 1653, SIGNED L(OUIS) SOLON '81
Each of baluster form, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip reserved on a black ground, one decorated front and back with a nymph beside a fountain flanked by frolicking putti in flight, either drinking or being splashed; the other decorated front and back with a nymph lighting a brazier as putti gather to kindle torches, one shielding his eyes from the flame, as others chase their companions attempting to singe their wings, the flaring neck and foot enriched in polychrome pâte-sur-pâte, platinum and gilt with elaborate foliate scrolls and fruiting vine
20¼ in. (51.3 cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

Please note that Thomas Goode & Co., London are recorded at the Paris International Exhibition of 1878 and are highly commended for their display of Mintons pâte-sur-pâte, including vases of this form. The reviewers of the day in the The Illustrated Catalogue of the Paris International Exhibition 1878 note them as 'men whose judgment, knowledge and taste have given them foremost rank among purveyors of British porcelain...It is unnecessary to describe [their collection] they are of the highest Art grace and beauty, confer honour upon England, and justify us in entering into the competition with the best fabricants of all the nations of the world.' This Exhibition generated numerous commissions for Solon and Mintons. Also see Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration 1849-1992, Essex, 1992, p. for a photographic portrait of Solon at work on a vase of this form. Please see note to lot 118.